Tweaked iPhone 4 In Final Testing – iPhone 5 at “Engineering Verification” Stage

Boy Genius Report is claiming that they’ve got a legit source who informs them that a tweaked version of the iPhone 4 known internally as “iPhone3,2″, has just entered the final field testing stage before production, which would lead us to believe that a release may be coming in the next several months.

One of our solid Apple sources has just let us know some pretty interesting (and exciting) information surrounding Apple’s upcoming iPhone devices. For starters, we have been told that iPhone model 3,2 – what everyone is assuming to be the Verizon (or at least CDMA-compatible) phone – just hit the “AP” testing stage. This is the very last stage before retail release; final hardware, almost final software.

According to them it also includes a sim card slot similar to the iPhone 4, something that’s not needed for a CDMA only phone.
Boy Genius has 3 theories for this
- A “global” mode phone offering support for both GSM and CDMA that would be compatible with all carriers. The design could obviously carry a tweaked antenna design to address reception issues and serve as a mid-cycle upgraded model around the world while also introducing new CDMA support.
- A CDMA phone with SIM support for global roaming, although this scenario seems overly complicated.
- A tweaked version of the existing iPhone 4, with no support for CDMA networks. This could simply be an updated version to addresses antenna issues.
But what about this iPhone 5? Well they don’t really have anything much to tell us about, aside from the fact that it’s now entered the “engineering verification test” (EVT) stage which means there making progress on it.